Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
KURT VONNEGUTMany people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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If somebody says ‘I love you’ to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? ‘I love you, too’.
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
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And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.
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What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
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Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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